MAJORS AND MINORS
Toledo, OH: [Hadley & Hadley Printers], 1895. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 148 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's gilt stamped tan cloth and is newly rebound with original board cloth preserved and new spine with gilt titling. Some rubbing and discoloration to cloth, primarily along fore edge. Original floral endpapers preserved, front free end paper and front rear end paper tipped in, embossed stamp to frontispiece and tissue guard, chipping to fore edge of page 15/16, printed on laid paper; ink ownership on rear pastedown of Dewitt Miller. JR Consignment. Shelved in Case 0.
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Dunbar's second book, Majors and Minors includes poems in two modes: the "major" poems are works written in standard English, while the "minors" are dialect poems. It was this work which brought Dunbar to national attention, after the praise the book received from William Dean Howells in the pages of Harper's Weekly. However, it was the dialect poems which Howells singled out in his review, and Dunbar struggled to achieve recognition for his non-dialect poems during his lifetime. This is a first edition, first printing of a classic Dunbar work, formerly in the collection of Dewitt Miller, an educator, librarian, journalist, minister, orator, and book collector. References: BAL 4917.